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Originally posted by the kessler boy
There has to be something said about the morals of the filmmakers who subject a child actress to these extreme scenes. I read an interveiw with Tarantino recently and he said one of the reasons he used animation for a part of Kill Bill was because he didnt think it would have been right ask a child to act those scenes.
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I just read a book about the Exorcist by a guy named Mark Kermode... it's worth a look if you can find it. At the time they said that Linda Blair was in all the scenes of the film; later they admitted that there was a stand-in for scenes like the crucifix masturbation scene.
The stand-in was also the person who wore the whiteface makeup for the subliminal cuts. I always thought it was Jason Miller (Father Karras). One of the cool things that the book has is a lot of other photos of the test reel for the subliminals. They probably picked the best one.
According to Blatty, the case that the Exorcist was based on happened in Mt. Rainier, Maryland in 1949.